mr. obama and governor romney. 50% to 45% in the state of colorado. the president leading in virginia, 49% to 45%. watch that race. and a third battleground state. look how close it is in wisconsin. mr. obama hold a 6-point lead. we'll explain why that's close now when you look back in history. in colorado, this was a state the senator easily won over john mccain. take that information as we bring in bob cusak. good morning to you. what are you seeing from colorado in 2008 from what we just saw in the quinnipiac poll taken a few days ago. >> this state is defend natalie in play. but obama won it easily in 2008.

this is a state obama is favored in but romney will be playing. the key advantage obama has is among hispanics. bill: romney is up 5, though. virginia is a state president obama won as a democrat for the first time since 1964. today in virginia president obama is up 4. what's going on there? >> romney had a tough july and he needs a good august in the swing states. he needs to move these polls. i think in virginia, romney has to win virginia. if you look at the electoral map he's got to win that state. obama struggled in the south. a lot of people thought he would be a big southern president. he's not going to win north carolina again and indiana.

romney has to win virginia. there is a lot of speculation it could be bob mcdonnell the virginia governor. bill: maybe karl rove's right. maybe it many friday after all. one of the most politically active states we have seen is wisconsin. president obama won that state easy, 14 points in 2008. today he's up 6 points. with the governor there and the union battle why is this state close? >> republicans have the momentum. the unions suffered a major blow after the recall. this is a state to watch. this is a state that obama must win. if he doesn't win wisconsin he's probably not going to win a second term. romney will probably spend some money, he will be making a play

there trying to get that down to 1 or 2 points. bill: president obama spends two days in colorado starting today. bob cusak from the hill. >> new reaction to senate majority leader harry reid's claims that governor romney didn't pay taxes for a decade. >> the message i gave harry reid is put up or shut up. i don't believe he has a credible source. i don't know who gave him his line of reasoning whether it came from the white house, the dnc or a staffer. but he ought to say where it came from. and we'll find out if that person has any credibility. >> reid has repeatedly said romney did not pay taxes. the white house has refused to condemn the remarks saying senator reid speaks for himself. bill: martha and i are live in

tampa for the republican convention and the dnc after that. prime time every night you can see bret and megyn along with the entire fox election team for the speeches and analysis. first in tampa, then in charlotte. >> the tea party has scored another victory, this time in missouri. todd aiken breaking out of a 3-way primary race to secure the republican nomination. >> this is about reclaiming our values, rebuilding the american dream and restoring the america that we love. and this [applause] this is our call this is our vision and this will be our message to the hard-working people of the state of missouri.

>> aiken will take on senator claire mccaskill. aiken labeling mccaskill a job-killing liberal. bill: he was endorsed by michele bachmann. it's the 4th tea party win we have seen. the biggest one in may when mourdock defeated richard lugar. >> we were getting reports of a fire on the 88th floor of 1 world trade center in lower manhattan. port authorities tell fox news there was no fire and firefighters on the scene checked everything out and left. it is the main building under construction at the site of the twin towers destroyed in the

9/11 terrorist attacks. a silver lining for the housing market. home prices post their biggest percentage increase in 7 years. rising by 6% in the second quarter of this year. the biggest quarterly jump since 2005. a steady increase in 71 of the nation's top 100 cities. but what do those numbers mean for the economy? stu varney is the anchor of fos business network. >> it's a signal, an indicator of a small bounce in a depressed housing market. you have got fewer properties on the market, so less supply. you have got all-time record low mortgage rates so the cost of buying a home is way down. because of that you have got more buyers so demand is

stronger. that's why you have got this 6% bounce in home prices. but this is coming out of a very depressed market where home prices and values are down by a third in the last 4 or 5 years. it's a minor bounce but it is a ray of sunshine. >> what would it take to get a real bounce in home prices? >> the creation of 300,000 new jobs each and every month and we are nowhere near that. it would take 4% annual growth for the u.s. economy and we are nowhere near that. this is an indicator within the depressed housing market. it's not an indicator the economy is really turning around. >> thanks, as always. context on the driving forces behind the current rise in home prices. the main reason appears to be that shortage of homes for sale. there are fewer properties on the market now than a year ago. also driving up demand, mortgage

rates which have dropped to their lowest levels in 60 years. bill: you still don't see the building we are used to. but interest rates are still on the floor. >> people are still renting, too. because they are concerned about job security. bill: we'll watch this for you. we are just getting started on this wednesday morning. new signs of success from nasa's mission to mars. new images back on planet earth and we'll show them to you. >> governor mitt romney accusing president obama of gutting welfare reform and creating a culture of dependency. >> that is wrong. if i'm president i'll put w back in welfare. @

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deceiving. luckily no injuries have been reported but police are urging everyone to use caution. bill: these are big issues as we are 90 ds away from the time when america votes. governor romney criticizing the president for removing a work requirement from the federal welfare regulation, something that clinton did in 1996. >> i was not a huge supporter of the federal plan that was signed in 1996. >> the obama administration quietly issued waivers to the work requirement in the law. bill: the white house responding to that ad with jay carney. >> this isment is categorically

false and blatantly dishonest. it will strengthen the program by giving states the opportunity to employ more effective ways of helping people get off welfare and into a job. bill: what is the truth? george pataki, the former new york governor is with me. we brought you in because of what you did in new york and what they did in the federal level. is the charge from the white house accurate when they say this ad is not true? >> absolutely not. the white house is saying they are strengthening the welfare requirements by creating greater flexibility. they are changing the definition of work. that was the linchpin of the whole bill to require work. i did it in new york and tommy thompson did it in wisconsin before they passed the federal law and it had a profound

impact. the left always felt these are demeaning jobs you are making welfare recipients take. they are wrong, we tried that, it failed, governor romney is right. bill: why would the white who is support this policy? what would it get out of it or how would it change welfare? >> it's hard for me to understand because this is a policy bill clinton signed with bipartisan support and has worked. you don't see people crying about we need to get back to welfare from work fare. when i left new york state we had 2 million people on welfare. we put in place first job creating programs. we lowered the tax rate and created a better economic climate so the private sector could create jobs. we hat child support services so single mothers could have the

confidence to go back to work. we continued health benefits if you took a job at minimum wage and it worked exceptionally well. and the key was requiring work. this administration gutted the work requirement and welfare. bill: why was it so critical in your plan to require people to work. >> i have four kids. i have a choice of sitting home and watching tv and playing with friends or taking a first job at $8. they would rather play with their friends. but requiring someone to work in exchange for a government benefit is essential to government reform. bill: why would governors want this flexibility? >> every governor wants flexibility because the 50 states are very different. new york and utah have very different populations and they have different policies. but you don't want to change the work requirement.

give the governors flexibility to administer the program as they see fit but require work in exchange for welfare benefits. that was the key of the 1996 bipartisan reform. it's what this president is gutting to redefine the definition of work to include things such as going on a diet. you mentioned bill clinton from 1996. he calls this ad not true. >> the president is a strong supporter of president obama. but having been on the front lines, understanding that we want flexibility. i think not only is it the wrong policy. he never talked to the american people about it or in consultation with congress, and it's possible gutting the work requirement on welfare could be illegal. pill * you heard from jay carney, strong words from the white house. patti ann, what's next?

>> brand-new images of the fierce fighting in syria as rebels take on government troops. the syrian president appears after weeks of being m.i.a. bill: how high will it go? the level of concern young americans have when it comes to pay for their college education. man oh man.

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bill: paying for college. apparently weighing on the minds of america's young. many of them, 40% say they will

take out student loans. the same policing a big drop in how much young people think of the presidential election in 2012. could that work against president obama? he carried the youth vote significantly in 2000. it was a major block of support for him. patti ann: a new twist in the temple shooting investigation. the shooter's ex-girlfriend is arrested in milwaukee. she faces a charge of felony weapons. authorities say her relationship with page ended just weeks before he shot and killed sikh worshipers. >> cook was arrested late yesterday by local police. she is a 31-year-old waitress and nursing student. she was arrested in the apartment she used to share with

the sikh temple shooter michael page. she has a fell any conviction so she is not legally allowed to possess a weapon. when our crew caught up with her outside her home she denied being misty cook. she has ties to the same white power movement wade page was involved in and the two began dating a few months ago before breaking up a few weeks before the shooting at this temple. around the same time the couple broke up misty got the job at a restaurant a few blocks from the location. what we don't know is if this has anything to do with the shooting. patti ann: but at this point police don't believe she had anything to do with the shooting? >> reporter: she may not have

anything to do with it but she may be the best information on the way he committed the attack. the fbi has a news conference scheduled for later this morning to talk about the latest updates in this case. what they are doing is trying to determine what might have set this man off, talking to his friends and family members, acquaintances, former coworkers. they are looking for a trail that might lead them to some sort of motive. the fbi holding a news conference, we'll bring you the latest. patti ann: rick leventhal, thank you. bill: this is a very intriguing development rick is reporting on there. there is new violence erupting in syria and a rare appearance by the president bashar al-asaad. who was with might tell the outside world a very interesting story. patti ann: the familiar theme

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patti ann: intense fighting raging in two opposition strongholds in syria. amateur video showing syrian rebels firing back at regime forces. this as syria's dictator appeared on state tv for the first time in more than two weeks with iran's security chief at his side. both men vowing to defeat the rebels and their backers. so what do you make of iran's show of support for syria? >> i think what they are trying to do is step this effort up since kofi anawn made the public effort that apparently his peace efforts weren't working. so the iranians tried to step into the breach.

they made an effort to host a peace discussion. it's surreal. iran has been calling the syrian opposition fighters terrorists. they have been saying this is an awful thing for the region. now what they are trying to do is make a last-ditch effort i think to you save probably the most important ally in that region. patti ann: in the tv appearance they vowed to defeat their international backers. >> they are referring to the u.s. but the thargs for the cia to support the opposition. but turkey and the gulf states have been the biggest support of the opposition. we have been behind in this whole efforts.

but any time the iranians and syrians as their puppet talk about defeating the international opposition they are referring to the u.s. and israel. patti ann: the syrians captured 48 iranians they say were spying for the iranian regime. iran in this warning said they will hold the united states responsible foanything that happens to those iranians. what's your take on that situation? >> the iranians for decades used the iranian revolutionary guard for their outside efforts to destabilize or to push their agenda outside their own borders. it would be willful ignorance to say the iranian revolutionary group hasn't been inside syria from day one providing assistance and training and support to assad and his forces. it's a fascinating story. the 48 men picked up by the syrian opposition.

the opposition is claiming these individuals were here carrying out surveillance and assistance for assad's forces. the iranians are saying they were on a private pilgrimage. they are innocent. it's bordering on the surreal and there's not that's people buying anything the iranians are saying at this point. they are trying desperately to prop up assad and again the white house has been saying for months and months and months, their days are numbered. patti ann: al-assad's prime minister and other high-level officials have defected to the opposition. hillary clinton says these defections show the assad regime is unraveling. do you agree with that. >> i agree it's unraveling, i disagree that we have been able to stand by for 17 months and say the days are numbers.

it's a game of attrition at this point with the attrition of the prime minister. he was in office for two months. he's a sunni. he's not a member of the inside sect. his performance is limited. but with all the problems they are having internally it shows if left to their own devices and the fact that their military gear with ultimately break down. they don't have the training to carry out long pro tacted urban warfare. but the opposition does need the support. they have been getting it to some dedpree but without a significant increase in that support this could drag on and on and on. patti ann: thank you as always. bill: another gold medal foimplet s. gymnastics and a busy day 12 for the london games.

no spoiler alert. you can watch. don't close your eyes. she was awesome, aly raisman become the most decorated member of the squad. her second so far during this competition. she also won a bronze on the balance beam. all-american final on the stand. beach volleyball. all four of them are from california. tomorrow one team gets the gold. jennings and trainer have won 20 straight matches. team u.s.a. trailing china, 30 gold for the red, white and

blue. 70 in total. great competition. i think the volleyball will be a blast. we'll see how that turns out. patti ann: fine -- bill: it will be a great match. pat require' exciting either way. this, bill, gut-wrenching moment at the olympics. a german weightlifter loses his footing. it is hard to watch. >> that's 432 pounds. but watch what happens. patti ann: 432 pounds of pure metal crashes down on his neck and bounced off. afterwards he got right up and walked off. he was later taken to the hospital for x-rays and he was forced to withdraw from the

men's super heavyweight competition. bill: that will leave a mark. watching those guys yesterday. trying to put 600 pound over their head. patti ann: i thought they had spotters like they have in the gym. bill: in that case you would need 8. classroom controversy. a policy that could force girls to take a pregnancy test if teachers believe they are pregnant. is that legal? patti ann: a new campaign ad against governor romney some say has taken the campaign to a new low. we'll ask our panel if it's fair. most efficient line of luxury hybrids on the road, including the all-new esh. ♪ while many automakers are just beginning to dabble

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bill: governor romney's campaign firing back at what they call a

dishonest ad by a pro obama super pac pairing in five critical battleground states. it attempts to link the death of a laid off steel worker's wife to bain capital. >> by then we were stage 4. there was nothing they could do for her and she passed away in 22 days. i do not think mitt romney realizes what he has done to anyone. furthermore i do not think mitt romney is concerned. bill: here is the response from the romney team. president obama's allies continue to use dishonest attacks the to mask obama's deplorable economic record. just a couple facts here. the romney team says he left bain in 1999. this gentleman lost his job two years later. his wife unfortunately died but

that was five years later in 2006. tucker, on its face what do you make of it? >>en its face face the's ludicr. it has no relationship to what happened. she died 7 years after romney left. and again as you just said, five years after company closed. is it romney's fault that this man didn't have health insurance for five years? did he murder this woman? it's indefensible but it's consistent with the obama campaign story line so far which is mitt romney is a bad person who doesn't like you, he doesn't care about you, he doesn't understand you. bill: alan, weigh in on this. do you defend this ad? >> i can't defend it. the time line doesn't match up. but this is not the campaign doing it. it's a pac doing it. i don't like this ad and i wish they wouldn't put out stuff like that. with all due respect to that man

who lost his wife, it's troubling they would do something like this. bill: would you expect them to pull it? >> it's up to the pac to do it, i wish they would. bill: this from the "new york times." an attack ad so preposterous that it can be swatted down by media fact checkers. this almost never happens. that's from the "new york times." >> but it's not the campaign doing it. similarly, what happens to have romney get upset about dishonest ads when he's putting out dishonest ads about obama. romney totally misrepresents the president on welfare as recently as yesterday. bill: you are on record. you said it's a critique of -- not a critique of his policies but an attack on romney as a person. why is that significant?

>> it's significant because the essential task of the obama campaign is to get voters who don't ordinary vote to vote. and to vote for obama. how do you do that? you do that by scaring them and convincing them that the other guy doesn't like them. that's the he sense of their get d that's the essence of their get out the vote campaign for latino voters. it's scaring people based on him and his personal morals. bill: do we have evidence that suggests that that is working as a policy? >> of course it's working. it always works. these -- i know the people doing this stuff. they are not side at all. they knew this ad would get exposed immediately but it's one of those when did you stop beating your wife questions. >> you can't ignore the fact that romney himself is calling

obama a liar. romney has very few detailed positions and he's running a dishonest campaign. again it's both sides. but in one case it's a pac doing it not associated with the campaign. you can laugh all you want. >> that's so wrong. this pac is run by bill burton. one of the president's closest advisers. >> he's not working for obama. bill: -- >> romney has been dishonest about the president's policies. bill: how do voters react? >> it doesn't matter. bill: i'm not sure i agree with that. when voters see something that's so blatantly dishonest and untrue, what do you think about the next ad that comes down the line? >> they still -- the words that hang in the air -- they are not

trying to win informed voters. they are trying to get people who are busy, not paying attention, not totally engaged. the only words that stick in people's minds are woman died, romney is responsible. i can't remember if it's true or not. bill: it's out there and lingers. >> exactly. bill: >> negative campaigning works. when you say something negative whether it's true or not, once it's out there it's hard to escape. bill: maybe. alan, thank you. tucker, thanks to you as well. patti ann: more on this. romney's press secretary will be joining us with the campaign's response to what even seasoned political veterans are calling a low blow. things are getting better and better for nasa's rover on mars. curiosity's first color pictures

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bill: 10 minutes before the hour. a second volcano threatening to erupt after another volcano comes top life for the first time in more than 100 years. a hiker rescued on a mountain in arizona. he was lost tuesday afternoon and left for hours without any water. it's 110 degrees in arizona. a moose tangled in a swing set.

he took matters into his own hands when he realized the wouldn't arrive in time to save the moose on the loose. patti ann: nasa's curiosity rover beaming back its first images from mars. you can clearly see the red surface and in the distance the north wall and the result of mars' gail crater. what goes through your mind when you see these images? >> what you are seeing is a tiny taste of what's ahead. this is what the rover can see with the secondary camera with the lens cap on covered with dust. people laugh at quality of the pictures. we have seen some 3d pictures from the surface of mars. this is the most complicated,

most sophisticated rover we have ever sent to another planet. and this is the closest we have sent to a virtual human being. it's a complete science lab. it's 700 days of wonder. it's the beginning of an adventure where we'll see for the first time to see what happens when you send a robot geologist to another planet. patti ann: what will happen the next 700 days? >> the rover will make 70 excursions to different sites. it looks like it was a lake on mars. basically it will be digging through the lake bed to determine what kind of water was on mars. was mars once warm and hospitable and what had. is there evidence of the chemicals of life and the chemicals that tell you things might be alive right now.

patti ann: that's where it gets exciting. will we see a man on mars? >> according to the obama administration everything is on track for a manned mission to an asteroid and return to mars in the 2030s. the way money is it's questionable if those things will happen. what's most exciting about curiosity. whether or not we send humans we'll start getting those answers. we'll find out if mars was a habitable planet. we'll have a virtual presence on mars. if it happens in the 2030s, great. if it takes longer than that. what we are learning is robot.can do incredible things. patti ann: the $2.5 billion which some people are raising eyebrows over, you are saying is

worth every dime. >> we spend $17 billion every year for the department of education. that's just federal spending. think about if you took one third 1% of that budget and said let's deseen it most amazing science project. let's send a virtual scientist to mars and beam back the pictures. one-third of 1% of your education budget. to me that seems like a pretty good deal. patti ann: we'll be staying tuned. bill: more pictures tomorrow, i take it? we'll see more then, won't we, corey. >> we are in the shakedown period. you land a billion dollar piece of equipment. you take the lens caps off and check out the warranty carefully. bill: a 10-year-old from california is heading to mars, at least his name.

he says back in 2009 he and his father signed up to have andrew's name etched on a microchip carried on the back of the rover curiosity. >> it's on the microchip and it says it's on the back of the rover. >> it flies to mars and now your name is on the rover mars. >> it's really cool. bill: curiosity landing on mars. they are looking for signs that mars supported life. patti ann: governor romney taking the stage in des moines, iowa, speaking to supporters as we get details on a vp short list. bill: in 1980 ronald ray began asked americans if they were better off than they were four years ago. it became a key phrase in his

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this is a test. as the one we have a fox news alert. going to take you out of des moines, iowa, first stop of the day governor mitt romney. a familiar scene emerging in this presidential cycle. are you better off now than you were in 2008? a big question voters are facing as when it was asked decades ago. remember? >> are you better off than you were four years ago? is it easier for you to go and buy things in the stores than it was four years ago? is there more or less unemployment in the country than there was four years ago? is america as respected

throughout the world as it was? >> a brand-new our as we roll on in our program. martha: good morning to you all. i am in today for martha maccallum. president obama claims he inherited that recovery and that economy. bill: who makes the stronger argument? ed rollins, good morning to you. >> and good morning to you as well. bill: when he delivered that message on that day come how did it strike you? >> that despite everything to clarity, the obama campaign is forward and i think he can position not only that we are

better off than four years ago, but will be be better off for your smell. we will get people back to work in the second a second four years. obama has offered nothing new. we have had 41 months of unemployment above 8%. there is no more stimulus money to spend. there is more deficit each year. the romney position has to be talking about the future. bill: would you phrase it differently? >> who has policies that basically give you some hope? >> at the end of the day here, four more years of obama and i can make that claim. bill: in allentown, pennsylvania, there is a piece written about how americans feel where they are today. the point that they make is that some people who feel better off

with compared to four years ago, they are not making more money, but because they have rearranged their finances, they have put their finances in a different order because of what they have gone too, which leads to perhaps the critical question now, not are you better off, but what you are living through right now, is that good enough? is that a good question? >> is a very good question and some people quoted there are making 75 hours of work in a week as what they used to make 40 or so we could people have downscaled and have been forced to postpone their children going to college. there is a variety of things in the college quality-of-life trade we need someone who understands the business community and encourage small business to start reimporting people in getting this economy moving. bill: one more point from "the wall street journal." disposable income is about 3%. that might not seem significant, but when you look at previous presidents seeking a second term, it was 2.3% up under

nixon, 5% under bill clinton, 7% under the first george bush. president carter, it was up 5% then. but in this case, it is down on a negative number of .3%. >> that is a very critical number and i think the key thing is that romney doesn't have to go out and hammer obama. he just has to talk about what he's going to do. the american public knows answering the question they posed at the beginning of this that but they are not better off. unemployment is not going down, there is big deck, kids can't get jobs out of college. what is going on? bill: is romney going to do that? >> he is moving forward in the fall. i be talking about what i would do and quit beating up on obama

at. bill: bill: thank you very much, ed rollins. patti: and the battle of the catchphrases on the campaign trail. first, president obama thing this. >> he is giving the tax cuts for people making more than $3 million a year. it is like robin hood in reverse. it is transport. patti: and governor romney is responding by the catchphrase of his own. we have been watching the president say a lot about me and my policies. if i were to coin a the term, it would be "obamaloney" trickiest serving dish in contradiction of the treatment relates to everything to help the middle class to tax policy, he is just saying things that are not

accurate. patti: attacks of both campaigns have been heating up as you can see. bill: some phrases may second some may not. the governor romney continues his talk in iowa and we will see the president today in colorado come in the first of today's that he spends in that state. patti: life in prison without parole for jerrett lochner. he's the man who killed six people and hurt 13 others, including gabby giffords. he is dealing with prosecutors pleading guilty and getting life in prison but avoiding the death penalty. >> today we remember the victims and families forever affected by this. justice was done today. the change of his plea, jared loughner will spend the remainder of his life in prison, he will never be able to harm to the tucson, arizona, community ever again. patti: adam housley joins us

from los angeles. tell us what went on inside that courtroom? >> quite a dramatic day in the tucson, arizona, courtroom. jared loughner wearing a brown shirt, he was shackled in the courtroom. also, a number of the victims were in the courtroom as well. families were upset. it was a day where jared loughner agreed to plead guilty. he attempted assassination of a congresswoman, that being gabrielle giffords. we heard from a clinical psychologist also, the judge determined that he was okay enough to basically take part in this defense and to agree to these charges. she gave a significant background of jared loughner and how at 16 years old he changed and became different. a dramatic points were made in the courtroom when he answered questions from the judge. at one point the judge said, you killed him with a pistol and he said yes. you intended to kill them and he

said, yes. they were there at the event and jared loughner calmly said, yes. patti: what was the reaction from victims then? >> well, you know, we have had a number of reactions. first is the statement came out from mark kelly, the husband of gabrielle giffords. he put the state cannot that said, we do not speak for the victims and their families, but daddy and i are satisfied with his plea agreement. the pain caused by january 8, 2011, are incalculable. avoiding a trial will allow all of us and the whole arizona community to continue with our recovery and move forward with our lives. that was from mark kelly, the husband of gabrielle giffords. we also heard from a number of those who were shocked or who had family members that were killed by jared loughner. >> this is the system doing its stuff. it is not a perfect solution.

the perfect solution is one that we can't have. but we want is not available to us. this is the best that that can be expected. >> and you heard a bit of a hint. these people are agreeing that it is the best of what can be expected. read what you wanted to, but if they had gone to the death penalty, it would be a very long and drawnout trial that would've made things potentially worse. patti: a lot of pain there still. adam housley live in l.a. bill: and earth in southern california, and earthquake. the quake was about 2.7 magnitude in yorba linda. there are no reports of serious damage. tropical storm ernesto battling mexico. winds are weaker, about 60 miles per hour.

heavy rains soaking the yucatán peninsula. hurricane warming effect. we have our meteorologist this morning. we say, maria? >> we did have hurricane in the south making landfall last night. basically it is cut off from the warm weather. right now we are just a more heavy rain across this region at the yucatán in the fall. locally up to a foot of rain, right now flooding is a major concern and also this part of the world. the storm system continues to head eastward and enters the gulf of mexico. it could regain hurricane strength as we have in the first

afternoon, but if it stays too long overland, it will not do that. it is not going to be having a lot of time, it will feel cut off from the warmonger. and early in the part of the weekend on saturday, expecting it to be an area of low pressure. we are also watching a potential area of the atlantic as well. hurricane gordon. bill: thank you, maria heard the buzz around mitt romney's announcement of number two is heating up. political watchers are saying we could be very close to an announcement. carl cameron on what he is saying about all of this. patti: industry man with a stash of fake ids and uniforms baffling police in florida. cops are asking for help to figure out who this man is and what he might've been up to. bill: walk softly and carry a big stick, or in this case, a night. taking on a store owner to protect his business. watch him go. >> you have one man with a knife

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bill: governor mitt romney holds a rally in a state that could be critical for the white house. des moines, iowa. probably because it has six electoral votes, but because the swing state voters sided with president obama in 2008. polling shows the president is slightly ahead in the hawkeye state. but could the vp pick we set that race? karl rove says it could be right around the corner. >> he is being very serious and closing his approach to this. it could come a little bit later this week, as early possibly as

friday. bill: karl rove is at the event but mitt romney is at. what makes him say it could be friday? >> well, i think he is probably right when he says that his gut tells him it will be a bit later. friday would be obvious in the sense that mr. and mrs. romney will be together. she gets back from the olympics today and they will have a chance to meet in boston. and then the bus tour takes them around the country for the following week. there is a certain aspect doing it on that day. it is a friday afternoon, kind the kind of audience they expect. a lot of people watching. bill: indeed, they do. it is a big moment. the consensus is a short list with four or five names on it. take rob portman. a senator from ohio. was he hope governor romney wins the hawkeye state on the ticket? >> that is part of the considerations. he is one of the study candidates with a well respected

resume. he is in colorado with five campaign stops on behalf of mitt romney were the president is campaigning today. rob portman is out there doing it. i talked with mitt romney yesterday and asked him about some of the long listers who have gone rnc speaking engagements. they will be speaking at the convention, but not necessarily his running mate. he said don't take that as a disqualifier. >> jeb bush, condoleezza rice, and others have been given speaking engagements at the convention. >> you don't think we would be so silly as to not provide from time to time the capacity to throw people off, do you? the fact that someone is speaking at the convention doesn't mean that they wouldn't necessarily find their speaking changed from one time to another. >> behind the scenes from the campaign has been seriously putting together various contingency plans, logistics and travel, how they will do the rollout for anyone of about four combinations.

bill: you called tim pawlenty at minnesota a sentimental favorite. why is that? >> it is true that the family, the campaign staff, all of them say uniformly that when it comes to echoing the romney message and be a surrogate for him, nobody has done a better job than tim pawlenty. is a former governor, romney respects his experience and has a blue-collar background which is something that mr. romney could use on the campaign trail amid all the democratic attacks. simplicity is a favorite, whether or not he gets enough pizzazz behind him, that's a question only mitt romney can answer. bill: there is another one, paul ryan of wisconsin. his budget position. does it help or hurt his chances? would you believe? >> that is really the question. whether or not the ball ryan budget would become a distraction or he would be able to make the event for the

presidential candidate. ryan has not done a great job on some. he has been out there strong, watch for that tidbit. if you get to that rhetoric, talking about the romney agenda, he is rocketing to the top. >> a lot of buzz around the marco rubio. has it died down in the last few days or even weeks? >> well, first of all, marco rubio had huge buzz about 2.5 months ago and learned that the best way to stay in the nominee's good graces is to not suck up too much to the media. and he kind of went quiet in order to go through this process. marco rubio could ve a profound effect on florida and latino voters. there is a question about whether he has the necessary experience or his time might not yet be here. he has a chance perhaps in 2016

and beyond. bill: brit hume says time spent on the pbx, this is something we will all find out soon enough. we better send in fact we might not find out. i'm not going to disagree with the former boss, are you? >> i will say this. the first decision a president in waiting makes. it has implications of the terms of how he conducts the process and what it means. but could it mean? we will find that when he gives us the decision and we can make the analysis stated that were hashed. bill: we will wait until brit hume tweets again. patti: in high school policy on

pregnancy causing a big controversy. what the school is ordering some students to do. we will ask if it is legal. bill: did you see how much that this guy had in this house? would put any spot to shame. people want to know this mystery man come up with a dozen identities, if he's up to something more sinister. >> best case scenario, we have someone who likes to dress up. i have never seen anything like this. again, it actually floored us

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student that vanished in mid-may with while writing her bike home. a 34-year-old has been charged with her murder. and yesterday, a man went through a security checkpoint without stopping for police. the man surrendered a short time later. he is not cooperating with the police. they are not sure if he had a weapon or not. sales at mcdonald's are down. sales in europe for mickey d's is also down as well. it is kind of flatlining. patti: it sounds like a plot from a movie, but police in tampa, florida, are trying to unravel the true identity of the mystery man. he had a huge collection of fake

ids and military and law enforcement uniforms stashed away. nasa and the cia nominee and home lan security. they had a gold chip that was missing in the back of it. it is kind of scary. who knows what these uniforms were used for. bill: wow, that's crazy. patti: so we had a nasa flight suit and helmet, a stockpile of ammunition, and many other uniforms. when you think this was about? >> a couple of things here. the first thing to understand is that it is not illegal or unlawful in this country to possess those items that mr. antigua had. that is his name, we think, mr. roy antigua. if you have those uniforms and military are insignia, police

badges, radio, and if you're going to use it for an unlawful or illegal purpose, that is where the problem comes in. this on memorial day, this guy went to a memorial day in florida dressed as a lieutenant commander from the u.s. military, and he introduced himself to the police chief. the police chief got a little suspicious about that and that is how the police became aware of the sky. then they went and did a search warrant and found the rest of this stuff in his home. >> police say that it is possible that this guy has a very active fantasy life. and that might not be something more nefarious than that. but he is already, accused of impersonating one of these people who speak uniforms he has. >> not only that, but he has a criminal history. this guy was on probation for violating his plural and his parole was for grand theft.

why did he have these police badges and uniforms? it is a little bit over the line. they found pictures of him holding an infant child, a baby in the hospital. they don't know which hospital yet, but guess what? roy antigua was dressed as a doctor. he is not a doctor. they are trying to figure out who the baby is in the picture and why was he dressed as a doctor taking photos in the hospital speak to that is very troubling. he had a lot of medical gear, fake hospital badges and the doctors scrubs. other things of nature. patti: he also had a boy scout leaders out there. what is it about? >> that is very scary. it is way overboard for this guy have all of that stuff, including a boy scout leaders out there. has he been trying to entice

little children, that is the question and things like that. it is not unusual for people to have a stockpile of commemorative police badges. people collect those things. but when you start having practical gear, please dear, radio and police radio for your car -- it's time to check that person now. patti: and also a nasa flight suit. thank you very much for your input. please are also asking anyone if anyone was a victim of this con artists. bill: 28 past the hour and a new campaign story. what the press secretary for the romney team has to say about it in response. patti: and lawmakers say the president's new immigration policy could threaten your safety. we will explain coming up next 0

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i want to play a little bit of the clip here. end of and get the reaction from the mitt romney team. about 15 seconds. >> by the end it was stage four. there was nothing they could do for her. and she passed away in 22 days. i do not think that romney realizes what he has done to anyone. furthermore, i do not think that mitt romney is concerned. bill: what are the facts, andrea, do you have found about this? >> first of all, shows how far they will go to smear mitt romney. president obama went to washington to change the culture there and the dirty politics have gotten worse. he has no positive record to run on. instead he is wanting personal character attacks, a governor romney and frankly blaming him for things and just a discussion

on 10 disgustingly. bill: is it true that this gentleman who lost his job in 2001, his wife died five years after that, which would be 2006? are those the fact that you understand? >> correct. governor romney let bain capital in 1999 to head up to the salt lake olympic games, which are the most successful games on u.s. soil by some. he was busy doing that. obviously it is unfortunate when anyone loses their job, this particular case was a plant that was closed years after governor romney left the company. to that point, you know, if people under governor romney's health care plan from the would've had health care. there a lot of people losing their jobs and health care and in president obama's economy, and that is why they are running

, to get him out of the white house. >> the real question is one of the obama campaign going to draw a line? when it's too much ever going to be a to low point for them. he would just not back away from the ad, and it is just despicable, to be honest. to blame governor romney for something like this, when again, not only was he not at the company during this time, but of course he doesn't want to see, you know, this on anyone. the obama campaign, if it had set the precedent of putting out false after misleading ad after dissident at about governor romney. bill: do you agree with many? we had a debate on this just last hour with alan colmes and chuckle crossman. they agree that it -- just the

fact that it is out there, it sinks in with some voters. do you believe that? or do you believe that voters and figure something that is inaccurate question that the next time around? >> i think the president obama's attacks have been so low and so despicable on a personal level, but they are backfiring on him and he was supposed to be a candidate to change washington and bring people together. all he has done is practiced the politicking division. pitting people against each other, he and his allies will stop at nothing to try to smear mitt romney or it governor romney is focused on his plan for strengthening the middle class and bringing jobs and good pay back into american's lives slides and talking about issues that they care about. bill: coming back to this at a second. the gentleman said, as he said in the ad, it is sad that he lost his partner. but he says he doesn't realize

what he is doing to people and i don't think governor romney is concerned. how would governor romney react to that? >> barnsley, governor romney is running for president because he wants to help our country and help americans. he is dedicating his life to public service now because that is how he thinks he can make the biggest difference. what he is talking about on a daily basis is how he can strengthen the middle class and get people back to work. and also help people. right now there are 23 million americans traveling for work under president obama's economic plan that just haven't worked. day in and day out. bill: thank you so much for coming on, andrea. we were hoping to get the obama team on as well. if that is taken up, we will bring them later today. growing concern over the president's new immigration policy. looking for the plan which takes

effect within days. when one lawmaker says it could give safe harbor to some dangerous criminals. bill: an incredible videos, people in one community came together to protect their neighbors from the thugs. watch how this thing unfolds

bill: business owners getting a taste of their old medicine. surveillance video showing that they got a whole lot more than they bargained for. massachusetts authorities believe this time around he was ready for action. >> told me money now. i need money.

>> can set macwrite a baseball bat next time, too, if he wants it. we can see the numbers. >> we can see the neighbors, helping to hold down the suspect until police arrived. authorities are still looking for that man. patti: and in louisiana, a charter school tried to implement a policy that makes them take pregnancy tests if teachers suspect pregnancy. they have been ordered to drop that policy. judge napolitano is here with us. what do you say? >> has violated the privacy. here is the conflict. the supreme court has said that

the right to have children is a fundamental liberty and the government cannot interfere with that or punish you for it. the supreme court has also said whether you are pregnant or not is a matter for determination between you and your doctor if you don't have to tell anyone that you are pregnant. you have those rights, which belong to the people. the school has the right to demonstrate its educational mission without undue interference from something a student is doing. so in order for the school to punish the student for being pregnant, the school would have to demonstrate that near pregnancy alone, the status of being pregnant, materially interferes with the school's ability to deliver its educational product that would be a difficult thing for the school to prove. when the louisiana department of education said plainly, forget about. >> this is a charter school, not part of the public school district, but they still get state funding. how much leeway to have? >> when they accept funding from the staple from the federal

government, we know that they did state funding, and the state dollars probably came from the federal government. and when they are subject to the regulatory authorities of the state, and they assume what we call the mantle of the state, which means they can do what the state can do. they've have the same constitutional requirements as an ordinary, everyday public school does, which is to respect the right to privacy. i can understand why the school would want to discourage young women. >> ages 15, 16, and 17, but the discouragement must not interfere with the privacy rights of young girls. patti: the aclu also made the point that they are making the choice to choose abortion outside of life. we want to show the statement from the school itself on which it says in part, the school

reserves the right to require a female student to take a pregnancy test to confirm whether or not the suspect student is in fact pregnant. if it indicates so, the student will not be able to attend classes on campus. >> that is fundamentally unconstitutional and discriminatory against a person on the basis of someone else's suspicion, a teacher suspects the you are pregnant, it is just a suspicion. he refused to confirm or deny that suspicion, there isn't a court in the land that will accept that kind of a decision by administrators. patti: the fact that when a girl is pregnant, she can just get the schooling at home. that does not help. >> and makes the case a little bit easier because they are willing to deliver the same services to her in another environment. without showing that her pregnancy is interfering with the ability of the teachers to

teach and administrators to administer, it is too much punishment for the exercise of the fundamental liberty which is the right to get pregnant. patti: very interesting case. >> you feel good? beutel fresh? >> happening now. thirteen minutes away. how are you doing? we met i am doing well because i am back from a couple of days off. new details emerging from the sikh temple. and the romney campaign trading barbs over the bill clinton area era legislation. wise and u.s. doing more in syria? it is possible that a wide conflict is on the way?

and records being broken in london. can anyone do a? what makes an athlete an olympian, coming up. >> it makes me feel young again as well. welcome home. to there is a mystery unfolding in london. there are seven athletes that are still missing. why some people think they will not be found any time soon. hey, i love your cereal there --

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bill: there our republican senators saying that president obama's new immigration policy could give safe harbor to criminal illegal immigrants. those accusations coming as the new report showed that the administration's program to do for deportations for some

undocumented young students could affect 1.76 million people. the center for immigration studies, we welcome stephen. and the president of the american immigration service. you think this is an amnesty program that is continues to grow and grow. what does it suggest, based on the evidence that you have seen, that illegals will get protection? >> criminal illegals? >> at first we said it was only for people who have graduated high school. and have been here for a certain amount of time. now it turns out that all of these adults have been here for a while who didn't graduate high school, but quickly enrolled in some kind of ged program, and that is about six or 700,000 additional people. and now looks like we might be pushing 2 million people. to remind your listeners, this is the thing that obama has done on its own. they have averted what congress

has mounted. bill: what do you think they are doing, say? >> he wants to give amnesty to about 2 million people. he says it is temporary, but experience shows that this kind of program is permanent or often permanent. we have people under this kind of protective status who have been here for 20 years. [talking over each other] bill: to give me the incentive for the president's acquisition, we think he gets out of it? >> he says i'm not going to enforce the law on them i'm going to give them a work authorization. bill: david, what you think about all this? >> this is an enforcement action. deferred action has been going on for a long period of time. the department of the homeland security has engaged in what we

call smart enforcement heard what the president has said is i'm going to take her limited resources and i'm going to focus on criminals, dangerous criminals, and i'm going to focus on terror. he doesn't have an answer, and neither do any of his friends in the restrictionist movement. what they do -- this is typical. they try to create a loophole that just doesn't exist. bill: what about capitulation to lawlessness? that is a big disconnect there. >> and senator sessions and even his friends and the restrictionist movement would read the policy, which i have here and i'm happy to send you, it says that anybody who was convicted of a misdemeanor that is significant for anyone who is convicted of a burglary or drug crime, or any number of other crimes, they do not qualify flat out. it is pretty clear. >> what about that, steve?

dave argues that this is gibberish and will make a big argument out of it. >> they have every effort to enforce the law. having the president say that there is a whole category of 2 million people that he is simply not going to be enforcing the law, it is the same as if the next president came in and said i'm going to tell the irs not to enforce the capital gains tax. >> that is exactly what he said. 2 million people. [talking over each other] bill: one at a time. steve, i hear your point -- david -- david -- on the political side of this, does this policy helped help the president in nevada? in colorado? in new mexico in 90 days? >> i will tell you what, it is not hard to understand why the latino vote is rejecting governor romney. i am not so sure how much it helps the president. what it does is keep his family together.

what he is trying to save this some sort of an amnesty and it is not. it is an enforcement initiative. nobody is getting off the hook here. all that is going on at the president has said we are going to delay deportation action, promising students. >> okay. >> he promises students in the country. bill: to both of you, thank you. we will continue to debate another time. patti: we are waing new details of the shooting at the sikh temple or the fbi holding a news conference any second now. details about the suspect's girlfriend and whether she might play a role in sunday's deadly shooting are you okay, babe?

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cameroon are missing from the olympic village in london and it is believed they're looking for asylum in great britain. the alth lietz include five boxers a swimmer and a soccer player. they are looking for economic opportunities outside their country. there is no indication they applied for asylum. their visas are good until november. this is the not first time a athlete from cameroon went missing. it happened in athens. >> they would head off to the games and never went home. tomorrow we get another crack at it. we'll see you then. have a great wednesday afternoon. see you on the radio with brian in a matter of moments. "happening now" starts right now. >> fox news alert. we're awaiting breaking details from an fbi news conference on sunday's deadly shooting at a sikh temple in wisconsin. we're expecting to hear about a new arrest.

police taking into custody misty cook, the ex-girlfriend of wade michael page. he is the man police say killed six people at oak creek. no evidence she is involved in it and she is convicted felon and allegedly involved in a white supremacy group. we're monitoring the news conference. when it gets underway we'll bring you the latest jenna: why home prices are climbing and what that means for the rest of the con must have. we'll look at that. hikers stroonded on a mountain as temperatures in triple digits. comedian versus costco. quite a showdown if there was one. why joan rivers handcuffed herself to a shopping cart at the chain store. what police did in response. jon: i hope she dressed well for this appearance on camera. it is all new and all live.

it is "happening now." jenna: we have a lot of great stories for you today. we're so glad you're with us, everybody. first off, brand new developments in the battle for the battleground states, very key for the election. we're good you're with us. i'm jenna lee. jon: i'm jon scott. the president and governor romney both hit the road in the race for the white house. we can't to get you caught up where they are now. president obama is heading for denver to a campaign event focusing on the middle class and colorado. colorado is a key battleground state, nine electoral votes. colorado has picked the winner in seven of the last eight presidential elections. right now governor romney is leading in the latest quinnepiac poll by 5%age points, 50-45. governor romney is focusing on another battleground state. he is in iowa where he just wrapped up a rally in des moines. hitting the president hard on the economy